The president of the CFDT, the largest of France’s five trade unions, has called on newly re-elected President Emmanuel Macron to take into the account the millions of people who voted for him, but who do not agree with him, and has asked for a large social concertation to set the agenda for his next term in office.
The CFDT endorsed Macron in the second-round runoff, to counter far-right leader Marine Le Pen, and voters “gave him their votes but not their voices” wrote the trade union’s president, Laurent Berger, in an open letter published Tuesday in the daily Le Monde.
